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4

Bedford Sun on OH House 17th 2010 candidate Anielski (R, Walton Hills)

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This Bedford Sun article includes more information than the WKYC story yesterday that I mentioned about Walton Hills Mayor, Marlene Anielski’s entrance into the Ohio House 17th race…for 2010.

The only information that is noticeably missing from the Sun article:

1) the size of the village of Walton Hills (about 2200 with about 50 kids in the public schools whose education is being litigated right now in the Ohio Supreme Court – Walton Hills wants to pull out of the Bedford district) and

2) the population of the district.

Given the formula for how the district population is determined, you can understand why the lines have to be re-drawn. My recollection is that each of the 99 district’s is roughly 110,000 residents (1/99 of census population).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:09 pm June 4th, 2009 in Campaigning, Cleveland+, conservatives, Elections, Government, OH17, Ohio, Pepper Pike, Politics, Republicans, Statehouse, Women | Please comment 

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4

Tonight, 10:30pm EST: Listen to WomenCount BlogTalkRadio debut (for me & them)

Filed Under Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Jill Miller Zimon, live-blog, Media, Pepper Pike, Politics, Social Issues, Women, Writing | 1 Comment

WomenCount describes itself this way:

A New Grassroots Approach to the Women’s Movement
The Internet has transformed grassroots activism. Instead of organizing in living rooms, political campaigns are now sprouting online. The web has become a powerful tool in the political process— for issues, for candidates, for fundraising. It’s time for the women’s movement to leverage these opportunities, and WomenCount is poised to help.

The 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign and the historic candidacy of Hillary Clinton changed the conversation for and about women in America. Her success, although it fell short, awakened for women all over the country— even those who did not support her— the possibility of what still can be. Her campaign was only a beginning.

Now, we will tap in to that emotion to harness the passion and energy of the history-making 2008 election and carry it forward. Think of WomenCount as a MoveOn for women’s issues and ideas. With the power of a grassroots coalition of politically engaged women behind us, we’ll be flexible, adaptable, and participatory— a political force to be reckoned with.

Tonight, the organization will broadcast its first episode of its new weekly talk radio show on BlogTalkRadio, and they’ve invited me to be the first show’s guest.

Following the information below, you can listen to the live-stream as the show is broadcast, you can participate by joining in the chat, online, from your computer, and you can call in and ask questions – in other words, it’s totally interactive. You can also download the show as a podcast or listen on your computer to it later (I will post a link to it afterwards).

Here are the details:

When: Tonight, Thursday, 6/4/09, 10:30pm EST

Where: Go to this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/womencount/2009/06/05/WomenCount-Radio-talks-with-Jill-Miller-Zimon

Please feel free to tweet out the link or post on your Facebook pages, etc. to promote.

How: 

1.  You can listen as it streams live through your computer.  

2.  If you’d like to call-in, the call-in number is (646)716-9381.

3. During the show, a chat room is open for people listening to go in to. If you create your own free account at BTR (if you don’t already have one), you can log in and talk in the chat room during the show.

What (that is, why me?):

It’s WomenCount Radio’s first show and host Julie Pippert & Co-Host/Producer Meghan Harvey asked me to be the guest, as the blogger at Writes Like She Talks and candidate for the Pepper Pike City Council . We will talk about what inspired me to run for office and why more women should be entering politics.

If you aren’t able to listen tonight, you will be able to listen later from the same location or download the podcast and listen at your leisure.

Thank you very much to Julie and Meghan.  I’m incredibly flattered to be the first guest of the show, especially because I so often don’t even imagine myself to be in the WomenCount demographic (as in, too old!).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:09 am June 4th, 2009 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Jill Miller Zimon, live-blog, Media, Pepper Pike, Politics, Social Issues, Women, Writing | 1 Comment 

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3

From the Some People Pay Me Department: 6/09 Mommy Matters column

Filed Under Humor, Ohio, Parenting, Writing | 3 Comments

Thanks as always to Terri Nighswonger and the folks who publish Cleveland Family magazine.  I’m entering my fifth year of writing for them and they are wonderful to work with.  I actually became Facebook friends with the illustrator who gets to caricature me every other month.  She does a great job and in fact, I could probably make a pretty amusing collage of the illustrations from over the years – if I wanted to laugh at myself more than I already do.

You can find the column here.  It’s called, They’re All The Best Age.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:58 pm June 3rd, 2009 in Humor, Ohio, Parenting, Writing | 3 Comments 

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3

Cleveland guidebook includes Writes Like She Talks as resource

Filed Under Blogging, Cleveland+, Ohio, Writing | 4 Comments

Many thanks to John Ettorre of Working With Words for notifying me that author Doug Trattner included John’s blog, George Nemeth’s Brewed Fresh Daily and this blog in his Moon Cleveland guidebook.  From the Amazon “look inside” feature:

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Many thanks to Doug for including WLST in his guidebook – definitely keeps the pressure on to be sure I blog more frequently and about those things that keep people noticing it.  There are a lot of blogs and web resources, so again, I really feel honored. It looks like a very cool book, and not just because WLST is in it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:44 pm June 3rd, 2009 in Blogging, Cleveland+, Ohio, Writing | 4 Comments 

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3

[video] CNN appearance to discuss Obama Middle East trip

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3

Walton Hills Mayor Marlene Anielski (R) to run for Ohio House 17th

Filed Under Breaking, Campaigning, Cleveland+, conservatives, Elections, Gender, Government, leadership, OH17, Pepper Pike, Republicans, Statehouse, Women | 1 Comment

Pepper Pikers, it appears that you will have a new state rep in 2011.

From WKYC:

Mayor Marlene Anielski has announced she is running for the Ohio House 17th District seat in the 2010 election.

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Anielski has served as Mayor and Safety Director of Walton Hills for nine years, and was on city council for 2 years. She said she would contine in the Ohio House her work as a mayor to lower taxes, to have a smaller, more responsive government, and to continue economic intitiatives that create jobs and opportunities.

Of course this doesn’t mean she won’t have GOP or Democratic challengers. The 2010 primary for the Ohio House 17th will be next May. Kudos for having a female GOP candidate for the Ohio statehouse – I’ve written so many times on the need for more women in the statehouse and more GOP women in particular so this is a step in the right direction for them – assuming she’s a good candidate (I’d never heard of her before reading the above article).

You can learn more about Walton Hills, a town of about 2200 individuals, here.

You can view the Ohio House District 17 map here but it looks like this:

The cities that the seat represents are:

Bentleyville
Brecksville
Broadview Heights
Chagrin Falls
Glenwillow
Hunting Valley
Independence
Lyndhurst
Part of Mayfield Heights
Moreland Hills
Oakwood
Pepper Pike
Seven Hills
Solon
Valley View
Walton Hills

More on the Mayor:

Hurst to challenge Anielski (7/07)

Walton Hills Council President to Run for Mayor (10/07)

Review of three-way mayoral race debate (10/07)

Mayors lobby Congress to pass auto industry rescue plan (12/08)

Mayor’s Corner at Walton Hills city website

Walton Hills can’t break away from Bedford School district (11/08) (Walton Hills filed an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court – there’s a letter to residents about this here)

She does not appear to have a website, Facebook, LinkedIn or Wikipedia entry that I can find. She is mentioned as a Republican mayor here.

Now, Anielski ran and won the mayor’s race in 2007, and I assume the term is for four years (though I haven’t been able to find specific information on that yet so I could be wrong). So her announcement for the house race would mean that she is going to vacate her mayoral job as well, since she has to run for that again in 2011.  Meaning folks could start to eye her mayor’s job.

Unless she’s just a placeholder for the 2010 GOP statehouse candidate – whomever that might be? Oh, so much manuevering – how does it all work.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:04 pm June 3rd, 2009 in Breaking, Campaigning, Cleveland+, conservatives, Elections, Gender, Government, leadership, OH17, Pepper Pike, Republicans, Statehouse, Women | 1 Comment 

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3

Appearing on CNN.com/LIVE at 12:15pm today re: Obama in Middle East

Filed Under Announcements, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Gaza, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, leadership, Media, peace, Politics, Religion, war | Leave a Comment

The show will be live and you can watch it here, at  www.cnn.com/live1

A clip of it will be posted later on cnn.com/video and I’ll post that link when I get it.

What do you think about President Obama’s current Middle East trip?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:45 am June 3rd, 2009 in Announcements, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Gaza, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, leadership, Media, peace, Politics, Religion, war | Please comment 

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3

WCPN Now: County reform-do you we want it? In what form?

Filed Under Announcements, Cleveland+, democracy, Government, leadership, med mart, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, WCPN/SOI | 10 Comments

If you live in Cuyahoga County and have followed the incredible woes and throes of corruption, patronage, old boy-old men, same old same old and just in general absence of decision-making and process about which we can be proud, then please listen to, think about and offer up your thoughts on what you want our county’s government to look like and be.

The Sound of Ideas, which starts in about five minutes, will be tackling these questions:

The clock is ticking on efforts to reform Cuyahoga County government. Any plan that will go before voters in November needs 46,000 signatures by July 13th in order to make it on to the ballot. The biggest sticking points right now have to do with minority representation. Hammering out a compromise has gone on for a year behind closed doors. We’ll talk to some county leaders involved in these closed-door sessions to find out what ideas are competing, what obstacles are present and what needs to be done to reach consensus. Join us for the Sound of Ideas at 9 on 90.3.

The panel:

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, Ohio’s 11th District
Bill Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
Lillian Greene, Cuyahoga County Recorder
Rob Frost, Cuyahoga County GOP Chair
Kevin O’Brien, Cleveland State University

Additional resources:

Cuyahoga County Government Reform Groups Join Forces by Mark Namik, The Plain Dealer
Cuyahoga County Government Restructuring Plan Still in the Works by Joe Guillen, The Plain Dealer
Read the Commission on Cuyahoga County Government Reform draft report, prepared by The Center for Public Management, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Read the Report of the Commission on Cuyahoga County Government Reform, by the County Reform Commission

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:09 am June 3rd, 2009 in Announcements, Cleveland+, democracy, Government, leadership, med mart, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, WCPN/SOI | 10 Comments 

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2

Tiller, Mandel, gum grafts

Filed Under Abortion, activism, Business, Campaigning, conservatives, Economy, Elections, Gender, Government, Health Care, intolerance, Kevin Boyce, leadership, OH17, Ohio, Pepper Pike, Politics, Social Issues, treasurer, Women | 4 Comments

1. George Tiller – doctor practicing lawful medicine who was killed, via unlawful means for an end that does not justify any means. Kudos to the Plain Dealer today which included two articles and an editorial on Dr. Tiller.

2. Given the scarcity and preciousness of my time these days, I’m letting the stuff that everyone else can write about get written about by everyone else. Ohio House District 17 State Rep. Josh Mandel (R, Lyndhurst) making everything formal for his state treasurer run falls into that category (as do many things, political and non-).  You all know how to Google his name if you want to learn more about what’s going on with his campaign, but I will point you to this post by Ralph King from the right blogosphere and this one by Anthony Fossaceca from the left, as two items that stand out to me.

Ralph and I have had our differences and we write differently and have very different tones.  However, he is a dedicated conservative voice in the blogs and active in his community and for that reason, I find his post, including a comment he wrote to further clarify his opinion about Josh’s run, to be notable and influential.  It’s these kinds of posts that, anyone seeking insight, should read.  If you want the standard same old same old, you can visit the campaign website, Facebook fan page or twitter streams.

I’ve been asked by several people about my thoughts on Josh’s entrance to this race.  I’m glad to be asked, but I have to say, they’re probably exactly what you would imagine and anyone who searches on “josh mandel” in my sidebar can read what I’ve written in the past.

In short, I do not find any of what Josh has done thus far in his career to be of such stature that I would think he’s qualified to do the job as state treasurer.  While it’s true that I had no choice over current state treasurer, Kevin Boyce, at least he is now racking up experience in that very job.  The power of incumbency is obvious, but in a race between two neophytes, it makes all the difference.

On top of that, I am 100% opposed to the idea of eliminating the Ohio income tax at this point in time and I’ve written about Josh’s support for doing just that.

In different locations, there’s information that Josh had or has a consulting business.  Let’s hear more about the success of that.  Let’s hear more of anything that relates to the duties of the state treasurer.  If you’re not sure what they are, start with the departments the treasurer oversees:

Accounting
Administration
Center for Public Investment Management
Community Education
Compliance and Risk Management Assessment
Human Resources and Fiscal Services
Information Technology Services
Internal Audit
Investments
Legislative
Public Affairs
Revenue Management
Trust Department

I’ll take Investments for $200, Alex.

A: This elected official refused to sell stock in a company with connections to business in Iran, until two months after introducing a bill that would require Ohio’s pension plans to do so.

Q: Who is Josh Mandel?

Are the “everyone trains on the job,” argument, and the “he’ll hire good people” argument, satisfactory for a state in dire economic conditions?  Remember Western Reserve Academy graduate, Neel Kashkari, bailout overseer?  How do you feel about President Obama’s 31 year old who’s overseeing the GM bankruptcy? Don’t be hating on that Yale law school grad for a financial-related job if you’re going to build up Ohio’s own 31 year old Case Western law school grad for a financial-related job.

There’s no need to hit up any of the far from moderate positions Josh has taken on wedge and other issues because as treasurer, our main concerns should be related to the duties of the job, as you can browse to via the links above at each of the 13 departments’ descriptions.

When I learned of his formalizing the entrance, I emailed him a mazel tov, and I wish him the best of luck, on a personal level.  However, as a constituent in his district and a resident of the state of Ohio, I cannot believe that the Ohio Republican Party has no one more qualified for the job.  I’ve picked on the ORP as being incredibly one-dimensional and constantly going back to the same faces, which even look like one another, to run for office.  But you would think, when they do work to offer up someone with a slightly newer and different profile, given all the caché Republicans and conservatives have as the party that is allegedly pro-business, they would be able to recruit and prime someone with far more relevant skills and achievements for the treasurer’s job.

If you want to read a more surgical review (definitely worth your time) of why Josh Mandel is the ORP’s candidate, check out Kyle Sisk’s posts on Josh.

3. Gum grafts. I’m getting them today.  I anticipate being miserable.  Nothing new there. ;)

*This post originally included information about a zoning proposal before the city of Pepper Pike that involves a health care-related facility that is represented by my husband’s law firm.  Although I’m not an elected official of the city, nor a fiduciary with said law firm, I am recusing myself from writing about this particular zoning proposal at this time in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest or appearance of a potential or actual conflict of interest.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:56 am June 2nd, 2009 in Abortion, activism, Business, Campaigning, conservatives, Economy, Elections, Gender, Government, Health Care, intolerance, Kevin Boyce, leadership, OH17, Ohio, Pepper Pike, Politics, Social Issues, treasurer, Women | 4 Comments 

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